aku_djinn

Email me at icm@snet.net I can play by email one turn a day maybe two. Have all CM editions and love Afrika Corps Iain

I downloaded the game and had the CD mailed to me. Unless I'm wrong, the patch notes said I don't have to use the 1.5 patch.

A frend sent me a PBEM file, using the EMA file as it's suppposed to. It's in my Incoming Email folder in the game files section. I was told (b/c it's not in the manual apparently) to load it I should look under saved games, but it's not there. I tried saving it under a different file name but nada. Any ideas? Thanks.

Yes it's .ema Then it should appear in the saved game option from the menu?

DO you put your saved email file in Saved Games folder or leave it in the Incoming Email folder? I just tried to move i to Saved Games and when I loaded up CMSF I didn't see the mission in there.

I am used to CM2 and 3 PBEM features. There used to be a button where you'd click Load email. That seems to be missing now. A friend emailed me the first turn of a new battle. I saved it into my Incoming Email folder. How does one get it loaded? It's not appearing in my saved battles, there is no load button for PBRM, I can't find it in the manual anywhere... love CMSF, hate they took away the easy to use PBEM features. Please advise...

I havent been reading posts for some time so if this is an old topic pardon. I was wondering if there are plans for a Pacific Theater CM or a CM 2? This is my favorite strategy game for the PC... would love a Pacific War version of some kind. We had a forum going months ago about how such a translation would or would not work in the Pacific theater... I am just curious if such a game is planned... even if it's a totally new design. aku

Also if you include the Chinese war from 1933 in Manchuria (and of course also the full invasion of China in 1937) the numbers put it on footing with the European losses. The Chinese lost more people than the Russians if one looks at the big picture. I think many people would be very interested in a Pacific War game in the SC vein if it were as well done as the original. Perhaps it's a mistake to consider making it compatible with SC1 as it conflicts with the goals of the original and places the designer in some very difficult confines. Maybe it's more realistic to expect either an SC2 with the design goal for a future Pac War expansion or a seperate SC Pacific War altogether. Making it a seperate game might alleviate some of the issues discussed here. [ September 11, 2002, 01:25 PM: Message edited by: aku_djinn30 ]

Yes this is true but in terms of scale these units would be broken up into smaller units (in most cases) and in terms of game scale my point is that they need larger maps. Many of the early battle (such as in New Guinea) were fought by small scale units. Iwo Jima, Okinawa were exceptions where really large numbers of enemy divisions were fielded. There were others of course... but the island hopping was essentially fought by small scale units compareed to the ETO.

I think the game is balanced in regards to airpower. The devastating effectiveness of air support was best demonstrated at the launch of Operation Cobra when over 1,000 sorties of tactical and strategic airpower literally wiped out the enemy units that lay before bradley's forces for the breakout. Rommel attributed the main reason for their failure to hold in western France to the enemy's total control of the air over the battlefield. It was not decisive by itself, but as we all know, in combined arms it was the critical element. [ September 11, 2002, 10:24 AM: Message edited by: aku_djinn30 ]

This may have been addressed previously, and if so my apologies: 1. Canadian units cannot be transported even though they are next to a port (or was it b/c the UK went down earlier?) 2. The lack of map size above the UK is a real issue, although I know it probably cannot be added. 3. When the US enters the war shouldn't the damage to the ALlies economy be removed from a split btwn the UK and the US?

If I am using v. 1.03 and my friend is not can we still PBEM? I loaded Axis Set Up into PBEM folder and when I start the game nothing appears on the list in the Load PBEM screen in SC. Am I doing soemthing wrong or is it the version issue?

It was Norwegian partisans that destroyed Germany's heavy water supply to delay their experiments in nuclear technology. In game terms, I don't think there was major partisan activities like there were in Russia and the Balkans, so it was not represented. I visited the Norwegian Resistance Museum in Trondheim back in the 1980's. Among other things they really healped ALlied intelligence with the naval war by gatehring information on German naval and air units. Trondheim was a major U-boat base, and of course the fjords were used to (try) and conceal German surface raiders.

I would love to see a Pacific SC but you may have to forfeit any tactical level play to keep the feel of the original game. The hex scale will probably have to be adjusted one way or another. One *possible* way of working it is to have a strategic map for large scale movement/transport, and tactical maps for the battle areas if two forces get close to each other. You would definately have to reduce the unit sizes, even a corps would have been a very large unit for many Pacific battles.

I unzipped the sprites into my SC Bitmaps folder but they don't appear yet.. did I do that wrong? I installed the elite edition that might be an issue, I prefer different unit counters. Any help?